Thread: Richard Dawkins: Could Someone Explain..

Originally Posted by O'nus

It becomes longer by replicating, not adding.

...so? That's a trivial detail, it's just how the mechanism of how the genome is added to. Whether there is even a difference between 'adding' and 'replicating and changing' in the first place, that is. By your definition of 'adding to the code', a group of new bases would have to appear out of nowhere and physically wedge themselves into the DNA... and that's never going to happen. Basically, regardless of the mechanism, the code is definitely being added to. It codes for a greater number of amino acids so it has therefore been added to.

Originally Posted by Xei

...so? That's a trivial detail, it's just how the mutation happens to work. The code is still getting more complicated.

The point is, there is no "information added" to the genome. It is merely replicating.

Edit: Followed by the process of natural selection, the genome will change in relation to this.
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